Bay Area music artists pose with a technician at a MusiCares and Kingmakers of Oakland health services outreach event in Oakland on Dec. 7, 2024. Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for The Recording Academy. OAKLAND — Kingmakers of Oakland is best known for its work with local school districts…

Music City San Francisco officially opened to the public on Oct. 19, 2024. Mike DeWald/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — For Rudy Colombini, the frontman of San Francisco cover band The Unauthorized Rolling Stones, the launch of Music City SF offers a chance to “reignite the artistic soul of the city.”…

Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool of Green Day with their new coffee flavors at a 7-Eleven store on Pinole Valley Road in Pinole, Calif. on Sept. 22, 2024. Aaron Lee/STAFF. PINOLE, Calif. — Back in the East Bay city of Pinole where most of Green Day…